Example Sentences

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There are moments in some of his performances in which a bullfighter’s raffishness shines through.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2018

Lapo's Wardrobe by Gucci brings Elkann's devil-may-care raffishness to menswear and accessories.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2014

But while those places have lost their Johnny-come-lately airs, Kuala Lumpur retains its charming frontier-town raffishness.

From New York Times • May 16, 2011

Senility is not pending, but familiarity certainly is, as rock's raffishness gets currycombed by nostalgia, spiffed up and repackaged for more genteel consumption.

From Time Magazine Archive

They belong to the half smart set, eager to conceal beneath a show of raffishness their plentiful lack of intellect and their fundamental bourgeois respectability.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John